The sound of saturated and distorted drums is just lovely. You can use the Saturate module to add subtle overtones/harmonics, make sounds a bit hairy, or reduce them to pulp.
Saturate mode selector
The Saturate module features six built-in saturation modes inspired by various famous (or not-so-famous but very cool) distortion types for drums. Just click to switch between them. The differences aren’t subtle.
Console - Transformer preamp saturation from vintage console input/output stages.
4 Track - Portable cassette multitrack preamp drive with added dynamics.
Tape - Tape saturation from driven tape machine record/repro stages.
Tube - Tube saturation with rounded drive and mixed odd/even harmonics.
Digital - Digital degradation combining sample-rate and bit-depth reduction.
Flub - Ring/phase distortion combining ring modulation and phase shaping.
Flavor slider
Each mode is coupled with the Flavor x-fade. Note that the character descriptors change for each mode. Use the slider to quickly fine-tune the character of the selected mode.
Mix
Use the Mix knob to blend the processed audio from Saturate with the unprocessed sound. Use it if you like the crunch you get from Saturate, but would like to dial back some of the punch and presence from the clean sound (or to be precise, the sound coming out of the module to the left of Saturate).
Target
The Saturate module can separate the incoming audio’s transients — short initial sound peaks — from its more sustained parts. In the neutral center position, transients and sustained audio are treated equally. Move the slider to the left — towards the spiky transient symbol — to focus the Saturate processing on the transient part of the incoming audio, leaving sustained sounds less affected. Move it to the right to achieve the opposite.
Focus
Adjusts the frequency range affected by the Saturate process. Move the arrows to make the affected range wider or narrower, or click the selected area and drag your mouse up/down. Click and drag to the left or right to move the selected range. Maybe you want to keep the low end clean while distorting the rest. Or you could fill in missing frequencies by saturating the range that needs filling and blending it in with the Mix knob.